Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

I found it in John Hay's diary for October 10, 1861.

"We came to McClellan's quarters and met in the telegraph office a long and awkward youth who spoke in a high-pitched and rapid tone to Seward, "We are just in from a ride of all day." Seward introduced him to me as Captain Orleans [Louis Phillipe d'Orleans, Comte de Paris]. He [Orleans] went upstairs to call McClellan and the President said quietly "One doesnt like to make a messenger of the King of France, as that youth, the Count of Paris would be, if his family had kept the throne."

I found the entry in the "Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln" compiled and edited by Don and Virginia Fehrenbacher. Very interesting, the contents of the book are listed in the front part of the book by source contributor. I was looking through the contributions by John Hay. Entry #16 lists The Count of Paris, which caught my interest.